Nevil's Passing and the start of Operation Green Merchant

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Todd works directly for the sheriff department and DEA....nevil schoenmaker was working with the DEA dutch police and Scotland yard thats why his extradition was dropped...outside council was justice department and nsa

This is utter BS. I not only have never worked with the f**king cops and never will, I went to prison for a full 5 year prison sentence!

Since getting out of federal prison in 2004, I have been raided 3 more times and prosecuted 3 more times for simply growing flowers. My attorney is the amazing J. Tony Serra and Tony will not represent ANYONE who has cooperated with the cops in any way.

After reading his posts, I have zero doubt that "ARAM8611" is actually Raymond Anthony Cogo, the guy who actually DID work with DEA and who brought down Nevil. Cogo has been harassing me ever since I wrote the article about Nevil after he passed away:


I cannot wait to fertilize his damn grave.

Happy 2021 Everyone!
 
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This is utter BS. I not only have never worked with the f**king cops and never will, I went to prison for a full 5 year prison sentence!

Since getting out of federal prison in 2004, I have been raided 3 more times and prosecuted 3 more times for simply growing flowers. My attorney is the amazing J. Tony Serra and Tony will not represent ANYONE who has cooperated with the cops in any way.

After reading his posts, I have zero doubt that "ARAM8611" is actually Raymond Anthony Cogo, the guy who actually DID work with DEA and who brought down Nevil. Cogo has been harassing me ever since I wrote the article about Nevil after he passed away:


I cannot wait to fertilize his damn grave.

Happy 2021 Everyone!
I sniffed that rat aram811 out a mile away. I’ve done my time as well Todd. I know the struggle. Keep smashing all the haters. Jah bless.
 
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We should ALL have a great disdain for anyone who snitches on others. Please check out this video of my old friend and my attorney J. Tony Serra talking about how much he loathes them:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Tony and I both feel very strongly that is is better to go to prison than it is to fold to the fear of going to prison and selling your soul to stay out.

I had no fear about going to prison and self-surrendered to federal prison on January 3rd 2000 for a 5 year prison sentence and did the time proudly. After 18 months of being in (about June of 2001), one of my attorneys at that time (Alan Isaacman) came to me in prison and told me that the prosecution offered to let me out if I would cooperate and debrief. My answer was: Fuck no.

I hated prison, but I would have hated myself even more had I taken the easy way out. I sat in prison from January 3rd 2000, until May 19, 2004 and then I lived on probation until March 2006. I do not regret any of it.

Anyone who says that I have ever cooperated with the cops is f-ing lying.

Todd
 
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I also got ratted out for 1000 clones, and did from 97-2001 locked up, self surrender, Summit Ky, and had 8.5 years supervised release. The councilors said they had never seen so much supervised release. No violence, or firearms ect... I was out from 2001-mid 2007 and a partner ratted on me again, and I got a state charge, Class C along with a Federal supervised release violation, so I was going to make bail on the new state charge, which triggered the feds, and then took they control, took me to a federal holding facility, which I was lucky as they will come after you once you have done your state time, but the state is happy to run their time concurrent with the fed charge, especially since my federal violation of 2+ years was longer that it would be for me to come up for state parole, so it saves the state money... My attorney knew to het me bail, which was $50,000 Cash It could be I told the FBI, and Kevin Dicken to fuck themselves when they tried to get me to rat they gave me so much supervised release. Dicken is now in Lex Ky. He hates me. I think its funny. I can still look all my friends in the eye, and they know I didnt rat. I also got busted for a felony in 89 for 7 grams. I had 2 different kinds, in 2 bags, and I had caught a woman cheating on me, whom I was living with, and kicked her out of the house. My House. So she told the cops I sold weed, and they came with a swat team of 20 cops, the prosecutor, blocked off both ends of the street, and found 7 grams, in 2 different baggies, and I got it for possession with intent to traffic within 1000 yards of a school. I was the first in my county. Boyd, Ky. 1989. They gave me 15 months Felony, and I did 12 with 3 in jail, and 9 months in a halfway house. Worked for street department community service, and lived at halfway house. They served me out at the parole hearing, because of the seriousness of my crime....
The guy that ratted me out in 96 got ZERO time, and I got charged with manufacturing all the clones, and then I gave him 500. I had 500 more, and some 40 mother plants, and 25 plants under 3 x 1000w HID. Been done with them since 2009. He also rented the house I made the clones in. He had a 1000 acre farm 150 miles away in central ky. He was 70, I was 39. I met him through his niece, and nephew who I knew all my life.. So I spent from 1997-2009 under their thumbs. 1 year in county jail, sleeping on the floor, in a 10 man cell, with 32 other men. All of them smoked cigs but me. I run marathons. All the smoking in the jail cells from 2007-08 gave me high blood pressure.
 
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I also got ratted out for 1000 clones, and did from 97-2001 locked up, self surrender, Summit Ky, and had 8.5 years supervised release. The councilors said they had never seen so much supervised release. No violence, or firearms ect... I was out from 2001-mid 2007 and a partner ratted on me again, and I got a state charge, Class C along with a Federal supervised release violation, so I was going to make bail on the new state charge, which triggered the feds, and then took they control, took me to a federal holding facility, which I was lucky as they will come after you once you have done your state time, but the state is happy to run their time concurrent with the fed charge, especially since my federal violation of 2+ years was longer that it would be for me to come up for state parole, so it saves the state money... My attorney knew to het me bail, which was $50,000 Cash It could be I told the FBI, and Kevin Dicken to fuck themselves when they tried to get me to rat they gave me so much supervised release. Dicken is now in Lex Ky. He hates me. I think its funny. I can still look all my friends in the eye, and they know I didnt rat. I also got busted for a felony in 89 for 7 grams. I had 2 different kinds, in 2 bags, and I had caught a woman cheating on me, whom I was living with, and kicked her out of the house. My House. So she told the cops I sold weed, and they came with a swat team of 20 cops, the prosecutor, blocked off both ends of the street, and found 7 grams, in 2 different baggies, and I got it for possession with intent to traffic within 1000 yards of a school. I was the first in my county. Boyd, Ky. 1989. They gave me 15 months Felony, and I did 12 with 3 in jail, and 9 months in a halfway house. Worked for street department community service, and lived at halfway house. They served me out at the parole hearing, because of the seriousness of my crime....
The guy that ratted me out in 96 got ZERO time, and I got charged with manufacturing all the clones, and then I gave him 500. I had 500 more, and some 40 mother plants, and 25 plants under 3 x 1000w HID. Been done with them since 2009. He also rented the house I made the clones in. He had a 1000 acre farm 150 miles away in central ky. He was 70, I was 39. I met him through his niece, and nephew who I knew all my life.. So I spent from 1997-2009 under their thumbs. 1 year in county jail, sleeping on the floor, in a 10 man cell, with 32 other men. All of them smoked cigs but me. I run marathons. All the smoking in the jail cells from 2007-08 gave me high blood pressure.

My heart goes out to you man, so many people do not realize how our growing cannabis was weaponized against us for so many years.

The last time that I was raided was in 2012 along with Richard Lee who founded Oaksterdam:

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa...on-of-pot-in-california-idINDEE8310JV20120402

The feds wrongly believed that because we were such good friends, I was hiding his money. At the time, the feds were pressuring banks to kick all of the state legal, or should I say, quasi-legal medical cannabis dispensaries (He was permitted by the city of Oakland since 2000), out of the banks, as his cannabis dispensary had been kicked out of over a dozen banks in the 12 months prior.

The DEA came in screaming, "Where are the safes, where the states?": needless to say, I did not have the safes, but they did confiscate 38 lights and 700 plants. Because it was a tragic multi person murder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikos_University_shooting - at the Christian University down the street from Oaksterdam University that same morning, the feds lost the local Oakland Police Department resources and could no longer keep the Occupy Oakland demonstrators away from them in downtown at the school so they pulled out. I went from thinking I was getting arrested to them leaving, it was surreal.

A couple weeks later I got a call from somebody claiming to be DEA telling me that they want me to come down and talk to them, and I asked if I have to, and he told me, "No, it is voluntary", so I told him that I volunteered not to.

That was April 2012, then in January 2013, I received a letter in the mail telling me that I was indicted for a felony in Oakland and I could not believe it, I had never been charged with a felony through the mail. So I went down and appeared, but the prosecution was not ready to proceed, so they bumped it again, I showed up a second time and the prosecution asked for a continuance because they did not have time to prepare and the judge obliged their request. I came back a 3rd time and they finally had their shit together and asked the judge to remand me on $50,000. Fortunately the judge looked at me, and looked at them and said, "He has been here three out of three times ready to proceed and this is the first time you have been ready to proceed, I have no reason to believe he is not going to show up: motion denied". He then looked at me and said do you need a public defender and I said "no" and he smiled and said, "I did not think you would." At that point, I asked him if I could retain my passport for international travel because I sometimes worked in Europe and before the prosecution could even object, he said yes.

I immediately drove to San Francisco and hired Tony Serra to represent me, as we have been friends since 1994. With already having three felonies for cultivating cannabis on my record (1997, 2006, 2009), I was facing a potentially long sentence. I was prosecuted for all of 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and into 2017. We had to prepare to go to trial three times, and they backed down all three times. Charges did not get dropped until proposition 64 passed and all felony cultivation charges were reduced to misdemeanors. Suddenly my felony cultivation was a joke when it was charged as a misdemeanor and they had to send me back down to the lower court to start all over again. Fortunately Tony made a really great argument to the lower court judge that the prosecution had been the punishment as it had been going on for the past five years and that with the passage of the new law, there was no way that police could get a warrant to come into my house for something that is now legal. The judge agreed and dismissed the case.

My life has been raked over the coals time and time again simply because I keep going back to growing, but I think it is worth it. I would rather die proud of myself, then to die a coward. The people who snitch are like Cogo, they never get prosecuted, they never go to prison and they live their life as pathetic pawns of the drug war and even the cops who use them have no respect for them.

Legalization is going to disempower the people who are using the fact that we grow against us and in my opinion, cannabis legalization cannot happen soon enough.

Todd
 
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WOW - After posting that link to the raid, I went back and read it and realized that for some reason Reuters edited the story from 2012.

The lame-stream media has never been on the side of truth when it comes to cannabis.


Original Text:

By Noel Randewich
OAKLAND, California | Mon Apr 2, 2012 11:47pm EDT

(Reuters) - Federal agents, pressing a government clampdown on medical marijuana, raided a San Francisco Bay-area college known as the "Princeton of Pot" on Monday and briefly detained its founder.

The sweep turned Oaksterdam University, which offers courses in the growing and dispensing of marijuana, into the latest flashpoint between federal law enforcement and medical cannabis advocates in California and other states where cannabis has been decriminalized for medicinal purposes.

"This is clearly an attack on regulation," Oaksterdam University Chancellor Dale Sky Jones said. "They just went after a school that tries to teach people how to do things legally."

Several dozen protesters rallied at the school during the raid, some of them openly smoking joints as they carried signs that read "End federal interference" and "Cannabis is medicine."

Oakland police handcuffed at least one demonstrator, but the reason for the arrest was not immediately clear.

In addition to the college, federal authorities raided the home of veteran medical marijuana activist and Oaksterdam founder Richard Lee, who was briefly detained during the search but not arrested, said Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Joycelyn Barnes

Lee, confined to a wheelchair by a spinal injury, financed a drive to collect signatures for a petition in support of Proposition 19, a failed 2010 initiative that would have legalized possession and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana in California for recreational use.

Other raids were conducted at a medical marijuana dispensary run by Lee, a nearby cannabis museum and the home of Todd McCormick, another longtime medical marijuana activist who has previously been arrested for growing pot, Barnes said.

Neither McCormick nor anyone else was arrested in connection with Monday's actions, she said.

Barnes said the raids were all carried out under a federal search warrant that a judge had ordered sealed, and she declined further comment, except to say that DEA officers were joined by the Internal Revenue Service agents and federal marshals.

"This is just part of the three agencies combining resources to investigate criminality involving marijuana," she said.

Oaksterdam instructor David McCullick expressed outrage at the raids, saying the school was licensed by the city and that its "grow lab" contains fewer than 100 small cannabis plants.

"It's just a school. It's freedom of speech," he said.

CRACKDOWN CALLED MISGUIDED

Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a non-profit group that promotes decriminalization of responsible drug use, said the crackdown was misguided.

"These raids will of course do nothing to enhance public safety and health -- or to reduce the availability of marijuana," he said in a statement. "Their principal impact will be to push both patients and provides back into the entirely underegulated ... underground market."

In California and other states that have legalized marijuana for medical reasons, the U.S. government has sought in recent months to shut down storefront medical cannabis shops and greenhouses deemed by federal investigators to be serving as drug-trafficking fronts, as well as those that are located close to schools and parks.

Federal authorities have recently intensified their crackdown in Colorado and Washington state, where voters will be deciding in ballot initiatives in November whether to make those states the first to legalize weed for recreational use.

A total of 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted some sort of legalized medical-marijuana statutes, according to the National Drug Policy Alliance. But cannabis remains classified as an illegal narcotic under federal law.

The Obama administration has said it would not single out individual patients who possess or grow their own marijuana in states with medical pot statutes. But U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and various federal prosecutors have said the government would continue to target operations that support for-profit, illegal drug dealing under the guise of medical marijuana.

Oaksterdam, widely referred to as the "Harvard of Hemp" and the "Princeton of Pot," opened in 2007 and bills itself as the first cannabis college in the United States. It holds classes on Wednesday mornings and one weekend every month.

(Additional reporting by Ronnie Cohen; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Anthony Boadle)

Somehow that text turned to this:


WORLD NEWS
APRIL 2, 20122:57 PM UPDATED 9 YEARS AGO
Feds raid 'Princeton of Pot' in California
By Noel Randewich
5 MIN READ

OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Federal agents raided a cannabis cultivation college on Monday in the San Francisco Bay area widely known as the “Princeton of Pot” and the “Harvard of Hemp,” authorities said, as the U.S. government pressed its clamp-down on medical marijuana.

The sweep turned the college, which offers courses in the growing and dispensing of marijuana, into the latest flashpoint between federal law enforcement and medical cannabis advocates in California and other states where pot has been decriminalized for medicinal purposes.

“This is clearly an attack on regulation,” Oaksterdam University Chancellor Dale Sky Jones said. “They just went after a school that tries to teach people how to do things legally.”

Several dozen protesters gathered at the school after the raid, some of them openly smoking joints as they carried signs that read “End federal interference” and “Cannabis is medicine.”

Oakland police handcuffed at least one demonstrator, but the reason for the arrest was not immediately clear.

Jones said veteran medical marijuana activist and Oaksterdam founder Richard Lee was awakened on Monday morning by federal agents conducting a separate search of his home, but he was not arrested.

Federal authorities said raids at Oaksterdam and other unspecified locations were carried out under a federal search warrant that was sealed by a judge, and they gave few details.

David McCullick, a faculty member at Oaksterdam, said a marijuana museum near the school and a medical cannabis dispensary run by Lee were also raided. He said the school’s “grow lab” contained at most 80 to 90 small cannabis plants, while the museum contained a single plant encased in glass.

“Here you’ve got a school that’s licensed by the city,” he said. “It’s just a school. It’s freedom of speech,” he said.

Joycelyn Barnes, special agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s San Francisco Division, said DEA officers were joined by personnel from the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Marshals Service in the operation.

Barnes said no arrests were anticipated from the raids, but she declined to comment on specifics of the sweep. “This is just part of the three agencies combining resources to investigate criminality involving marijuana,” she told Reuters.

SCHOOL FACED DECLINING ENROLLMENT

The raid at Oaksterdam, which opened in 2007 and bills itself as the first cannabis college in the United States, followed a report in the Sacramento Bee newspaper last month that enrollment at the school had declined sharply since the federal government began a broad crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities.

In California and other states that have legalized marijuana for medical reasons, the U.S. government has sought in recent months to shut down storefront medical cannabis shops and greenhouses deemed by federal investigators to be serving as drug-trafficking fronts, as well as those that are located close to schools and parks.

Federal authorities have recently intensified their crackdown in Colorado and Washington state, where voters will be deciding in ballot initiatives in November whether to make those states the first to legalize weed for recreational use.

A total of 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted some sort of legalized medical-marijuana statutes, according to the National Drug Policy Alliance. But cannabis remains classified as an illegal narcotic under federal law.

The Obama administration has said it would not single out individual patients who possess or grow their own marijuana in states with medical pot statutes. But U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and various federal prosecutors have said the government would continue to target operations that support for-profit, illegal drug dealing under the guise of medical marijuana.

Oaksterdam holds classes on Wednesday mornings and one weekend every month.

One demonstrator outside the school on Monday, a 50-year-old laborer on disability with a back injury, said he had taken a class called “Horticulture 102.”

“I tried it (marijuana) and it worked,” said Michael Little Bear. “So the next step was I wanted to make it. There’s goodness here. ... They teach the right way to do things,” he said.

Additional reporting by Ronnie Cohen; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Frances Kerry
 
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Good morning THC Farmers!

Looks like Raymond Anthony Cogo is back.

He has been harassing me ever since I wrote the story LEGACY OF A LEGEND about Nevil passing and Cogo being the rat.

Please read the attached affidavit of the fucker turning in Nevil and all of his seed customers.

For the record, I have been busted for growing in 1995 (this was not for growing, but I did get busted for medical marijuana in Ohio and they raided my San Diego Cannabis Compassion Club, you can read about it in the Sept, 1995 NY Times), 1997, 2006, 2009 and lastly (I freaking hope) in 2012. Every single time I was prosecuted.

Never EVER have I cooperated, nor would I, as it goes against everything I stand for.

On Jan 3rd 2000, I self surrendered to a 5 year prison sentence in a 100% hemp suit on time and stoned. I was never afraid of going to prison, which is why I never ever cooperated.

After 18 months of being in prison the prosecutors contacted my attorney and sent him in around June of 2001, with the message that if I would cooperate, they would ask the judge to release me. My response was FUCK THEM. I then spent the rest of my sentence in prison and was not released until May 19th, 2004.

Anyone who says that I have ever cooperated is a fucking liar.

I can't wait till you die Cogo, as I will come fertilize your grave mf.
 
View attachment 1994 Affidavit of Anthony Ray Cogo Nevil Snitch.pdf
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Its amazing hes still alive after the chain of events his loose lips created. #fnckRattCogo
There's still a mass of old threads and news pieces on this. I know there were individuals that ripped or abandoned grows at the time thinking they were on the list.

We got your back FnCK the rat.

Here's another old thread and there's more links in it.
 
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I think it just took two hours to read the 8 pages. The odd political argument was off topic but I think I got two paragraphs with info I never knew about.
Good read.
 
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I self surrendered with a hemp suit on bwaaa ha ha ha ha an i did the full 5 years "every second just for you and the cause" lol and at the same time i had cancer 10 times
Sorry to hear about your cancer issues,
Lost my uncle to the dreaded disease:(
 
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Todd never had cancer, not once
Dude, AGseedcompany is Todd,
You said you had cancer,
“and at the same time i had cancer 10 times”

You got pretty much every one that views this thread confused as fuck with your posts,
You obviously have an axe to grind?
So go barrie the hatchet and move on.
The movement is over, it’s just a matter of time till the greedy government officials in illegal states realizes they can tax your ass to sale you some shity ass government dope!!
 
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Todd: At the age of 2, I was diagnosed with Histiocytosis X. At the time, it was considered to be an aggressive type of cancer ***but later on, around 1986, science realized it had both misdiagnosed the disease as well as the treatment.

Todd is not in good standing at this time with The Farm!
And does not frequent this site anymore.
If your trying to get under his skin you can reach him at several other un named social media sites.
You will not find him here.
 
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Todd is not in good standing at this time with The Farm!
And does not frequent this site anymore.
If your trying to get under his skin you can reach him at several other un named social media sites.
You will not find him here.
Had no idea Todd was that big of a controversy here. Hope things get hashed out.
 
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Is ratting really that bad. I mean some people deserve it.

Would you rat on a child molester for growing weed? What about for molesting a child?


I've reported many growers to the DEA. If you sell moldy pesticide weed to a loved one I've either reported you to the DEA or turned your teeth into shards. Some of us don't fuck around with this clown weed or the clowns growing it.
 
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How do you think operation green merchant happened? Green merchant happened as Steve Hagar said was the politicization of the magazine...in other words high times showed you how to grow where to buy the most needed seeds and equipment...then they got all the useful idiots they could to push for legalization then they started a fight with the drug czar trying to humiliate him...mind you this was in the middle of a hot drug war you had a magazine advertising seeds and equipment the cannabis cup etc, and there were people stupid enough to follow high times lead...in public.... ordering seeds to their house ordering equipment to their house ordering high times and going to rallies...in other words young American pot smokers are ignorant

I think it's funny, if you get pulled over driving home with a Pyrex, some Prestone and red devil lye, and legally acquired pseudo ephedrine, you go to jail for "intent to manufacture" yet when it comes to weed they wait until your grow is finished and cured before even considering a charge. It's something weird to think about.

I'm curious how many DEA seeds are still in evidence, or if they've been handed to a pharma company along with the clones the DEA removes from the buildings they raid, fully intact "they weigh the whole pot" is that really why cops never bust growers at the hydro shop. Because you can bust someone driving home with paraphernalia from the headshop. Yet " intending to grow massive amounts of weed" has never been a thing? It's weird.
 
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Is ratting really that bad. I mean some people deserve it.

Would you rat on a child molester for growing weed? What about for molesting a child?


I've reported many growers to the DEA. If you sell moldy pesticide weed to a loved one I've either reported you to the DEA or turned your teeth into shards. Some of us don't fuck around with this clown weed or the clowns growing it.
Snitches get stitches, you little fucken 🐀
 
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